Photographer in the wilderness of Africa 🌍
It's a rainy season in Uganda now so I decided to take a a vacation in the famous national park park here called Queen Elizabeth where the wildlife story begins.
I'm currently taking some shots for company websites so I need to get some exclusive content for social media as well. Right after the rain powered, I decided to take a walk with the park guard; Ruth as an escort. We came across beautiful sightings but many were abrupt and more tricky to photograph due to their movements for example the giant forest hog, bushbuck and the gray backed camaroptera.
I was so lucky to get this yellow billed stock from the shores of kazinga channel that is linking lakes George and Edward. I'm sure you may love to see how this beautiful bird hunts fish in the shallow waters, so interesting with its beak opened and moved closer to the leg in the water. As I was still down on ground captured by the beauty of this stork, a trumpet like voice came from a nearby shore and I got up looking all directions!
Elephants were crossing the other side, the mother with a calf and the elder daughter alerting the herd members to wait for them. Only adult males live a solitary life and can come back to the herd for mating only then back.
They are the largest living mammals and considered the mega gardeners since they contribute a lot in seed dispersal through their poor digestion that is 60% proper. Seeds that pass through their system grow faster than those dropped on ground. They play a big role in the biodiversity of the environment.
I trust you would love what I finally captured last as I turned back from the channel. I found another musician doing the base notes 🎶 under the water hyacinth and guess who?
The hippopotamus 🦛 😀 ! At first I called it a moving vegetation until I approached silently and slowly with my camera and discovered a huge and fat hippo was hiding with his aggressive eyes open.
Nice to see another post from you. And as always, fantastic shots! The last picture surprised me, at first I thought it was a bird or something like that ;-)
Thank you so much Michel 🙏. He is a hiding hippo. Using our normal eyes it looked like a moving vegetation but after capturing it on my camera, I discovered it was a hippo 🦛😀 so hilarious 😂
Wow, Hillary, these are really great photographs that cannot be compared with mobile phone pictures.
You should come back here more often and impress us with hippo guessing games... ;-)
Thank you so much Christiane, I took them on my Nikon camera in the evenings. The light wasn't strong so I had to keep less movements with the camera lying down to capture such.
I'm now back here, I have been off for sometime but it's my time now showcase the photography of nature and wildlife.
Keep healthy and well @chriddi
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